Posts by Wingless Wonder

The reality is you had and still have the choice. You just didn't know you did or how to exercise the choice. Good user level BOINC documentation is rather lacking.

[Jord, before you get upset, I am saying user doc, I know there is excellent doc for it if you have some programming experience. But for the rank user, it leaves a lot to assumption. It really could stand a hired tech writer to crank out a BOINC for Dummies book.]

Someone or a group of people can write more thorough BOINC documentation, but you still can't make people read it.

A new version should be my choice, especially when it "bogs down" peoples systems farther....like this was is doing.

@MELund, oddly enough, my system seems to have become faster in the weeks since the latest SETI application upgrade, both in browser functions and other local apps offline. I don't, however, attribute any changes to the SETI application or BOINC. Any change in system performance is likely coincidental.

NO! Another case of me being at the wrong website at the wrong time? I'm so able to be wrong - and apologize. The website just happened to go down? I thought I had a worm. Needless to say that is unacceptable after all the "testers" etc. You all just lost me and anyone I will ever meet. Well, maybe I will cut you some slack in Heaven and offer you a hug. Nytol.

That's a lot of drama for 8 days of participation.

I had no issues downloading v7 (cuda42 version for my NVIDIA card) last night, once I had renamed my old app_info.xml file to something else. I let enough of them complete and upload until I was certain everything was working fine, which it appears to be.

Time to take either a chill pill or group therapy folks, this is starting to get a little ridiculous. ET will still be out there whether it takes us a day longer to find him/her or not, so sit back, relax, enjoy the weekend, maybe tune into the Olympics since they only happen every four years (offset by two), and just be happy. Thing'll get fixed by next week - just wait one or two more days until then...

Intergalactic peace~ (~please~)

Quoted For Truth.

For the past several days, I had specified no new tasks for SETI@home. Tonight, I just downloaded a day's worth of work units for my gpu(s) just to chew on until tomorrow. After those are completed, I will specify no new tasks, again, at least for a while.

My electricity usage is significantly higher when processing CUDA work units 24/7, but it's a choice I make. I don't need a pat on the back for my contributions of electricity, computing power, or monetary donations to SETI@home. I'm glad to have the opportunity to help out when I can.

If there are technical problems occurring at SETI@home, they will eventually be resolved. I don't lose any sleep over it. It'll get fixed.

It has 96 cores so does that mean it can process 96 wu's at once or will it just use them together to process faster?

The NVIDIA video card will process one work unit at a time, but will do so much faster than a single core of a multiprocessor cpu. It won't be 96 times as fast as a cpu, but the speed improvement is still significant.

I have donated once, more than a year ago, and will probably do so again. But I must say a superficially personal letter puts me off, however worthy the cause is. Partly beacause (sic) of that my donation will not be immediately forthcoming...

Not to worry, suf - I just made another small donation on your behalf to the SETI@home project, the first time I've donated twice in one year.

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Sad Trombone (Nov 25 2009)
(Message 950447)
Posted 28 Nov 2009 by Wingless Wonder
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In response to some less-than-positive comments about the state of SETI@home, its servers, not being able to obtain work, etc., I myself volunteer use of my computer because I feel like it. No one is twisting my arm to do so. I maintain a two-day work cache in anticipation of the occasional outages, along with participation in other BOINC projects. I rarely run out of work. If I did, no big deal.

I don't feel that the folks at SETI@home owe me some sort of debt of gratitude. On the contrary, I feel privileged to be able to participate in any of the BOINC projects.

I'm wondering if there is another easy way to figure out what driver is in use by the videocard. I don't have Windows 7, nor an nVidia videocard with CUDA, but I really feel that your drivers aren't installed correctly or aren't in use by the OS.

In Vista and Windows 7, click Start button, type Device Manager in the search field, then open Device Manager and select Display adapters. Right-click on specific video card being used, then click on Properties, then the Driver tab to show which driver is being used for that specific card.

Origami posted by Thurlow Farnsworth
[font=Arial]Could be, but I never saw this as problematic with the classic version. I'm running AMD Athlon 2700+ with 512mb RAM, and this happens even tho nothing else is running other than the start-up support stuff.[/font]

There's one way to know for sure - disable the graphics display of the SETI@home screensaver by checking 'Go to blank screen' setting > minutes to go blank = 0 (zero).